Tuesday, May 3, 2005
A little thought...
The ends justify the means? Lying, cheating, even killing are not inherently evil, only by their bad effects. They could be good, by intent or outcome, if they sum total overall better. That is my very liberal moral philosophy. You know it already. Just one caution: you can never see all ends. Be honest, honourable and kind by default. Lying, cheating and hurting may then be added by careful consideration. NOT the other way around. If in doubt, take the Good side. That's what morals were made...
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Monday, May 2, 2005
Insecurity & Unreason
The trick to winning an argument - depending how you define win of course - is to stay cool and logical at all times. Soothing music, by way of a walkman, is helpful. Plus, you can turn it up to drown out the opponent’s screaming to a more humane level, while turning it down briefly to hurl a few deadlyly accurate blades of logic from behind your cover. The two sides of the great battle of this world: Reason Vs. anything-to-get-what-I-want Unreason. Always be on the Reasonable side. My sister...
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Hey,
Just a little plea: check out my new blog, "THE NEW SNIGLET REVOLUTION", and support it. It depends on you. Not like these blogs, in which I'm just talking to the wall and am happy doing so.
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Sunday, May 1, 2005
More lingo
Every so often I learn a bit of language and there is a connection. This goes with this, this made this... I suddenly see a better view of the great weblike construction of language. A while ago, I was thinking, if there is the word ruthless, then what must ruth mean? Does the word still exist? There wasn't a computer or dicitonary around though, so I forgot it. Coincidentally, I just saw this in dictionary.com: ruth ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r th) n. Compassion or pity for another. Sorrow or...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005
PITY.
I mean sympathy. Eh... Let's put on someone else's socks for a moment. Imagine you're diagnosed with something awful, or a parent's died, or some other treasure of God's sweet sweet existance that he was so kind to grant to us all gift-wrapped with a little bow on top. Go to work/school for the first day after ( the monday after.. I think it should become proverbial. Future authors of blogit, remember and use). Some random guy who you know by face. "Oh, what happened to you?" You pull together...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Direction to Perfection
That is the title of one of my good internet friends' blogs. The concept is simple, and shared among many driven intellectuals I know: that one should be trying to improve further on every step we achieve in life. It isn't something that can be bought, not something someone else can do for you, you just need to be shown the way... and take it for yourself. Perfection. Nobody's perfect, or so I hear*, but there can be closer and further away can't there. *want proof? Well, a very tidy person...
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Sunday, April 24, 2005
Music and the Mind
I heard a great track recently: Hablando en Plata ~ Melindi (great bouncy folky romantic Spanish singer... I recommend him to you). It's a vibrant, lively tune which makes you sit right up, but rather, I felt sad. Sort of scared and lost, a little lonely. Well, an echo of that emotion. Because, the first time I heard that song was about half a year ago, on the bus to school, knowing no Spanish at all, no-one, and nothing around me. I remember once the same effect, with heartbreak instead, on...
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An apology
To GoldenMean: Seems like I've learnt one of those lessons in caution over compulsiveness I've been looking for. I was harbouring a certain frustration against the fathead nationalist yanks that have the idea that they deserve better than others, or don't quite see the rest of the world as real, which as a sentiment I don't think is very often spoken straight but shows itself very much through people's unconscious leanings. Being sleepy, I decided to write a quick comment about that, but the dam...
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Saturday, April 23, 2005
Happiness...
People have been trying to define it for ages. In the entry I linked up to below GoldenMean puts across the idea that happiness is ever increasing survival, getting better at what we do. Well, I've had these ideas for some time, and as I developed them and utilised them, they have made me happy. So, as far as I'm concerned, they are right. It's taking up the idea that happiness is just not something we can define simply. Nothing is simple, not even this statement, remember? So. I dare to scrap...
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Friday, April 22, 2005
Pain huh.
I am happy. I find it uncomfortable to say - partly because it feels like I'm boasting, partly because it makes people pity me (don't you DARE), mostly because it makes other people feel worse than I do - but I have been in real pain. Fuck your headache. I have been to that bloody headache as the proverbial Starving Children in Kenya are to the food Mum don't wantcha to leave on the side of your plate. So cut the shit, we all know you are complaining just for the attention. {damn, this is...
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